CORVALLIS -- Challe Barton will forgo his senior season
with Oregon State to pursue a professional career overseas, a team spokesman
confirmed Monday.

Barton, whose recent Instagram photos show him in his native
Sweden, is the third player with remaining eligibility to leave the program in
the past three weeks.

Barton replaced point guard Ahmad Starks in the starting
lineup midway through the 2012-13 season, and he entered his junior year as the
Beavers' unquestioned facilitator. He seldom looked for his
own shot over OSU's first 14 games before freshman Hallice Cooke supplanted him
in the first unit.

Barton was largely a nonfactor after the demotion. Over the Beavers' final 18 games, he attempted
just four shots, recorded six DNPs and reached double-digit minutes only twice. On the season, he averaged three points, 1.1 rebounds and 1.2
assists.

Barton
started 25 of 93 career OSU appearances and finished with double-figure points
three times. Last summer, he was one of the final players cut from the Swedish
national team.

Barton's
father, Charles Barton, is a longtime coach in Europe who has helmed such
professional teams as Sweden's Gothia
Basket and Germany's Skyliners Frankfurt.

News of Barton's
departure comes after forward Eric Moreland declared for the NBA draft and
Cooke received his release to transfer. Pair that with the graduations of guard
Roberto Nelson, forward Devon Collier and center Angus Brandt, and OSU now has
one player (guard Langston Morris-Walker) who averaged more than 11.4 minutes
per game for a 2013-14 team that fell to Radford in the first round of the
College Basketball Invitational.

With Barton gone,
sophomore Malcolm Duvivier is the Beavers' top returning point guard. He
averaged just 3.1 points and 0.4 assists as a freshman, but emerged as coach
Craig Robinson's top guard off the bench in the latter half of Pac-12 play. He
erupted for 11 first-half points in a Senior Day win over Arizona State.

Gary Payton II, an
incoming transfer from Salt Lake Community College who will have two years of
eligibility remaining, is also an option at the point. He earned second-team NJCAA Division I All-America honors
earlier this month after averaging 14.1 points, 7.9 rebounds and 3.8 assists
for a Bruins team that went 27-7 and reached the "Sweet 16" of the
NJCAA Division I Championships.

OSU has two available scholarships. Since the late
signing period lasts another three weeks, the Beavers could try to fill at
least one of the spots with an unsigned high school senior. They could also
pursue foreign players or transfers. Multiple reports have linked OSU to former Maryland swingman
Nick Faust, who will have one year of eligibility remaining after sitting out a
year.